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Fire Fighters on Ladders

Date: 1910
Description: Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building.
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Fire Fighters with Hose

Date: 1910
Description: Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose.
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Fire Ruins

Date: 
Description: Aftermath of winter fire.
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Fire Fighters in International Model CO-8190 1963 Fire Truck

Date: 1963
Description: Five fire fighters en route to a fire in an International Model CO-8190 1963 fire truck.
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Fire Fighters Practice with Scout 80 1965 Fire Truck

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Description: Color photograph of a fire crew battling small house fire during a training exercise. The men are using an International Scout 80 1965 fire truck.
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Truax Field Fire Station

Date: 04 10 1943
Description: Truax Army Air Field Fire Station #1 with 5 fire fighter crash crew members and their truck.
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Fire Fighters

Date: 05 21 1931
Description: Group portrait of five fire fighters after their rescue from the blazing roof of the building that was burned in the fire. From left to right, they are E.A...
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The Conklin Fire

Date: 1915
Description: Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames.
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Ladder Wagon Racing to Fire

Date: 1895
Description: A ladder wagon of the Madison Fire Department races around corner of North Pinckney and East Main streets.
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International Fire Trucks

Date: 1934
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1934 line of International fire trucks, featuring an illustration of fire fighters climbing up a ladder, wit...
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Doyon Lumber Co. Fire

Date: 05 11 1947
Description: Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background.
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1915 Foam Fire Truck

Date: 05 13 1947
Description: Firemen James Fraser and Philip Statz (left to right in the driver's seat) are demonstrating how the old wooden spoke-wheeled 1915 foam fire truck chugged ...
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1922 Pumper Fire Truck

Date: 05 13 1947
Description: 1922 Pumper Fire Truck at old Fire Station No. 2 (1921-1966), 301 N. Broom Street. Firemen (l to r) Harold Muenkel, Charles White, Alex Cohn, Lt. Wilber K...
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International Model S 1926 Fire Truck

Date: 07 20 1926
Description: Two men are using a fire hose to spray the corner of a brick building with a bell tower. Another man is sitting in an International Model S 1926 truck oper...
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Windsor Fire

Date: 06 11 1948
Description: Donald Hanson, who discovered the fire at the lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company and turned in the alarm. The fire total...
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John Hoffman on Old Fire Truck

Date: 08 10 1948
Description: Close-up of Fireman John Hoffman at the wheel of a 1929 pumper truck which is going to be "retired".
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Madison Fire Truck and Fire Station

Date: 08 10 1948
Description: Looking south on South Webster Street with the soon to be "retired" pumper fire truck and six fire fighters, parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 1...
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Fire Fighters with Scout 80

Date: 1961
Description: Fire fighters battle a controlled fire during training with an International Harvester Scout 80 4x4 mounted with a fire apparatus.
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Fire at Fitzgibbons Building

Date: 08 28 1948
Description: Fire fighters applying water to the burning Fitzgibbons building downtown.
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Fire Fighters Putting Out Fire

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Description: Fire fighters on the street aiming fire hoses at a fire in a collapsing building. Smoke envelopes most of the fire and rubble. The wall of the building has...

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